[kj] RE: best lyrics

[peter.west410]

I'm sure the lyrics are better when you hear the song
aswell................You dont need to upload it ,I will find it myself on
Kaazaa,Cheers anyway.
    PW



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Martin" <robmartin at bluebottle.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: [kj] RE: best lyrics


> From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [kj] RE: Rush debate & KJ top 5
>
> "the latter certainly has the best lyrics ever written (IMHO).'
>
> Can you upload the lyrics on to here?
>     I would like to read "The best lyrics ever written"
>
>
> Peter
> You sound like you are sceptical and trying to test me.
> Still, I've said my piece and I suppose I should try to justify what I
said
> so I'll try to find them on-line or scan them in.
> That was easy - I did a Google search for 'rush lyrics (song name)'.
> I've just included two tracks. If you are really interested, I'm sure you
> can find the rest of them.
> The first is probably my fave - one or two words in each line is made from
> another part of the same line.
> The patronising bit inside brackets is my addition - not on the album.
>
> Rush
> Anagram
>
> There's a snake coming out of the darkness
> Parade from paradise
> End the need for Eden
> Chase the dreams of merchandise
>
> There is tic and toc in atomic
> Leaders make a deal
> The cosmic is largely comic
> A con they couldn't conceal
>
> There is no safe seat at the feast
> Take your best stab at the beast
> The night is turning thin
> The saint is turning to sin
>
> Raise the art to resistance
> Danger dare to be grand
> Pride reduced to humble pie
> Diamonds down to sand
>
> Take heart from earth and weather
> The brightness of new birth
> Take heart from the harvest
> Shave the harvest from the earth
>
> Reasoning is partly insane
> Image just an eyeless (i-less) game
> The night is turning thin
> The saint is turning to sin
>
> Miracles will have their claimers
> More will bow to Rome
> He and she are in the house
> But there's only me at home
>
> Rose is a rose of splendor
> Posed to respond in the end
> Lonely things like nights,
> I find, end finer with a friend
>
> I hear in the rate of her heart
> A tear in the heat of the art
>
> The night turns thin
> The saint turns to sin
>
>
>
> Here's the album title track - 'Presto'.
>
> Words by Neil Peart, Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
>
> if I could wave my magic wand...
>
> I am made from the dust of the stars
> and the oceans flow in my veins
> here I hide in the heart of the city
> like a stranger coming out of the rain
>
> the evening plane rises up from the runway
> over constellations of light
> I look down into a million houses
> and wonder what you're doing tonight
>
> if I could wave my magic wand
> I'd make everything all right
>
> I'm not one to believe in magic
> But I sometimes have a second-sight
> I'm not one with a sense of proportion
> When my heart still changes overnight
>
> I had a dream of a winter garden
> a midnight rendezvous
> silver, blue, and frozen silence
> what a fool I was for you
>
> I had a dream of the open water
> I was swimming away out to sea
> so deep I could never touch bottom
> what a fool I used to be
>
> if I could wave my magic wand
> I'd set everybody free
>
> I'm not one to believe in magic
> Though my memory has a second-sight
> I'm not one to go pointing my finger
> When I radiate more heat than light
>
> don't ask me
> I'm just improvising
> my illusion of careless flight
> can't you see
> my temperature's rising
> I radiate more heat than light
>
> don't ask me
> I'm just sympathizing
> my illusions a harmless flight
> can't you see
> my temperature's rising
> I radiate more heat than light
>
> Regards
>
> Rob Martin
>
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